across the globe for those living below the poverty line, america symbolizes economic hope. but for over 00,000 men, women and children, life in the u.s. means something else. >> i feel like a slave. i don't have money, i don't have a passport and i don't have anybody. >> forced in to becoming sex slaves, selling their bodies. trapped in the land of the free

with no way out. >> trafficking is really. >> you're under arrest for prostitution. >> we've seen anyone as young as seven, anyone as old as 75 years old. >> relying on the kindness of strangers to free them from captivity. >> this is something i would never expect here. >> open the door, sheriff's office. >> while devoted public servants do their best to fight those who prey on the vulnerable for big profits. >> there's nothing but modern day slavery. >> msnbc presents "trafficked. slavery in america." today in the u.s., the invisible reach of human trafficking stretches from houston to

california's most aflubt suburbs. it is a growing men ace sustained by america's need for cheap labor and underground sex. tonight's msnbc returns to houston where over 1/3 of all illegal immigrants enter the country. young women from asia trapped into selling their bodies for cash. for those that find it hard to believe that sex slavery is alive and well in modern america, harris county's human task force insights nonbelievers. >> we have a big problem in the houston area with a lot of spas popping up in the outlying areas of the county. >> we're going to be working off case number -- >> the task force's mission,

root out sex traffickers hiding behind the city's many massage parlors and spas. today's target one of the 500 spas which uses woman. >> this is the advertisement that they're advertising right here. they're talking about sexy asian girls and they're saying open seven days a week and 24 hours a day and got these pictures. >> the traffickers who own and operate the spas do little to hide the fact that there is sex for sail. just page through dozens 6 online site, and buyers can hand pick the girl down to their ethnicity and bra size. it's a location in the past where federal officers have rescued trafficked women. it is reopened under new ownership. this brings investigators back for another look. >> we'll be going out to this location to do a raid on the

spa. get the girl hopefully interview some other girls, maybe take that information back, as well as make the arrest and hopefully we can secure other evidence inside that business to indicate prostitution. >> the team heads out hoping to make a dent in a criminal operation that hassen proven especially difficult to stop. >> it seems like you knock one down and ten more pop up. >> with seemingly inizationable demand for underground sex, the police face a never-ending battle, one with high stakes and real human costs. >> it's not a victimless crime. i don't know any female that woke up one day that said i'm going to be a prostitute today. they got talked into it by some pimp and some pimp out there is making a ton of money off the services of this poor girl. >> the crew rendezvous in an

alley to suit up. they hide their face with a ski mask. the task force will send in three undercover officers beforehand. >> we're going to send deputies in there posing as customers to confirm the allegation of prostitution is occurring and we're going to do a raid shortly thereafter. >> we've got surveillance units. >> as the taketown team gets into position, it becomes clear that business is booming. >> man they have a lot of customers going in. >> the undercover officers don't want to raise the suspicion of the owners, so when the takedown happens, they've been instructed to continue acting as if they're regular johns. finally after watching a civilian leaves, officer x makes the call to move in.

>> we're across. we're across. >> open the door, sheriff's office. open the door. >> going to the back. >> officers sweep the massage parlor detaining johns found in rooms. >> officers corral three women as they attempt to flee, detaining them for questioning. >> she looks young. >> the segd one? >> find out where they're stuff is. >> you speak english. >> young, scared and foreign, the women pretend they don't under stand english. they don't know they've been secretly recorded speaking perfect english. >> where are you from? >> korea. >> our producer happens to speak

korean and confirms the women are here illegally. >> how old did they say they are? >> 30. >> 30? yeah, uh-huh. and this one? >> 31. >> there's no way she's 3 is years old, ma'am. >> how long have they been here? >> the three working girls keep their heads down and let the older woman who police suspect is the brothel manager do the talking. the woman persistently denies being in a position of authority and plays dumb. >> what we usually find is clor objection bottles. >> coming up investigators serve and find the physical evidence they need to make a prostitution case at vip.

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harris county's human trafficking task force has orchestrated a sting operation at this massage parlor. >> how old are you? >> 27. >> 27? >> when initially questioned, all three women say they've only been in the country a few days and as the team searches the facilities, all the telltale signs of human trafficking reveal themselves. from the atm in the lobby to the cramped living space, investigators have no doubt that the owner is exploiting the women by selling sex for cash.

>> most of these businesses that are soliciting prostitution have living quarters like this. as you can see their bed is here, their suitcase is there. they don't even unpack. they keep their clothes in their suitcases. this is their home while they're here. >> officers say the traffickers keep the women as virtual prisoners who must eat, work, sleep within these walls 24 hours a day, seven days a week. with surveillance monitors and a manager, the workers are expected to follow a strict protocol. >> this is where you pay for the service, they strip you there, put here and do a shower for you. >> the reason they bring you in here is to separate their clients from their clothes so they can look for any type of

maybe listening devices or check their wallets to see if they have any money or if they're law enforcement of any kind. >> sometimes they hide the unwrapped condoms in these bath towels so we can check through them. >> they're not what you think. they're individually wrapped ones. they buy them in bulk. and they hide them in any household item that you can imagine. that happened to be a coffee mate jar. that was easy to find. the if you open up the top it looks like coffee mate. but it has a false bottom. or actually it's just a screw-in bottom as you can see. how long have you been here? >> don't understand. >> typically when we come in here and we try to interview the girls, they deny they can speak english. however just 20 minutes ago or the day before i had uc's come

in here and speak with them and have a conversation in english. it's common for them to be uncooperative at first. >> this young woman says she's only been in houston three days. at first while the mamasan is watching, she refuses to talk. but once she's separated she confides that she doesn't want to do this 250i7 of work and wants to go home to korea. >> does she have a passport or visa or anything. >> green card. >> are you a resident? >> yeah. green card. >> this woman insists that she left her visa at home in california and denies selling sex for cash. but officers soon find evidence to the contrary. >> what we usually find is clor rocks bottles and once i open up the lid i found used condoms inside and i went ahead and cut it open to show you this is how they hide used condoms.

>> that's a sure sign that it's not just massage going on here. >> when confronted with the evidence of hundreds of used condoms, we tried to get answers. >> would it surprise you if i told you there was prostitution going on here? >> i don't know. >> would it surprise you if i told you that. >> i don't know about it, so. >> and what about the condoms that we found. >> i don't know. >> they were in the laundry area. they were in a clor objection bottle. there was no bleach. just used condoms. >> i don't know. >> but you're doing the laundry, right? >> yeah. >> do you use the bleach. >> i do use bleach. >> that's the bleach that you use? >> yes. >> there are people who say that you're the person who's running this massage parlor. >> i don't know who say that? i don't know. >> msnbc learned that this self-pro claimed housekeeper is no exchanger to police. in 2005, local and federal officers raided a california spa

she owned where korean girls were selling sex for cash. young women just like these. >> do you sleep here? >> this girl approached two undercover officers today and will most likely be charged with prostitution. >> what's your name? >> how long have you been here? >> three day. >> three days? >> yes. >> where did you come from? >> from l.a. >> she says she's from korea, seoul. she says she's been here three days and she came from l.a. >> her immigration status will also have to be checked. >> does she have a green card? >> no it's just a passport. >> meanwhile officers search her purse for the money the officers gave her today. >> 500, 600. >> officers find $907. >> mom you're under arrest for

prostitution. do you understand what i'm saying? >> the team has what they need to charge her with prostitution. they hope bhie booking her and interviewing her, they may be able to learn valuable information and hopefully help her get out of the life. >> there were three girls working and a mamasan. only one went to jail. the other girls we identified the other girls 15id they've only been here a few days. >> human rights advocates say there's a much more insidious kind of slavery that occurs behind closed door. domestic servants or even factory workers. >> i feel like a slave. because i don't have money, i don't have my passport and i don't have anybody. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios

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every city in america. but experts say the trafficking of men, women and children for labor is much more common. from inden toured servitude in hotels, restaurants and factories, advocates say that modern-day slavery is alive and well even in the most affluent homes. >> for four long years a family in suburban san francisco enslaved lily. >> i feel like a slave because i don't have money, i don't have a passport and i don't have anybody. so if i run away, you know, maybe somebody will kill me. >> in 2002, the family hired lily, then 24 years old to be a nanny. they promised her a steady salary and a nice home. instead the demanding dip mloma imprisoned her and abused her.

this was in one of the most up scale neighborhoods in the sfan francisco bay area. >> i think this is just preposterous. >> shortly after the diplomat and his young family moved in, heidi couldn't help but notice the young girl. >> the thing that attracted my attention is that she was washing the car every day. she came out to wash this car from top to bottom every single day, whether it was raining or cold or warm. and we thought what a strange thing. why would some young girl have to come out and wash a car every single day. >> lily says washing and scrubbing the car at 6:00 a.m. was only a fraction of her responsibilities. every morning began with the care and feeding of twins, a

seven-year-old girl and boy who were not even allowed to carry their books to the car. in addition to all the chores, cooking and cleaning, her job included carrying the briefcase and being available all hours of the night to serve him. >> he would stay late at night and ask me to make tea at like 1:00. it was like 24 hours. >> lily says they started controlling her right away from the very moment when they first arrived her at their house in the middle east. she was forced to travel with them to the u.s. they would lock her indoors whenever they left the house. >> even if they are inside the house, they would lock the door and hide the key. >> the problem is huge. >> human trafficking attorney cindy liou says there are

thousands in america. >> according to a 2004 report from the u.s. department of justice, an estimated 14 to 17,000 people are trafficked into the united states every year. put to work in popular restaurants, major hotel chains and factories, these silent victims are the human cost of the low prices customers pay for food and services in big cities like san francisco. >> we've seen anyone as young as seven, anyone as old as 75 years old. men and women. we've also seen sex trafficking cases but also a lot of labor cases, so that involving domestic servitude, hotel restaurant work. >> when the captors are

foreigners, they have little incentive to respect laws. >> lily finally worked up the nerve to speak to a friendly face. >> once in a while she would be there and she would see me standing getting my mail and she would come flying over and start talking to me. and she had this beaming expression on her face as if she were so happy to be talking to another human being. >> even though lily didn't initially convey any distress, heidi began to have concerns about the welfare of the women. >> it was always clear to me that she did not have much time to chat because she would say, oh, i have to go now. i must go. so she would run back. almost like she was afraid someone would see her. >> mine while lily began to confide in heidi one brief conversation at a time. heidi gradually pieced together the ugly realitity of lily's

daily life. >> she had to work from morning until night for 18 hours of work, seven days a week, no holidays, no days off, no ability to go anywhere, visit her parents, nothing. after a while she told me she was never paid. and i thought what a strange thing. >> for many it's hard to understand why lily didn't just run away but it's important to see the situation from lily's perspective. in the beginning it doesn't register this is fishy. they think this is normal. this is what's expected. >> in fact, lily had a good experience previously working as an international nanny. at 15 she lived and worked for a diplomat in saudi arabia, the family treated her well, paying for her vacation time, taking her with them to europe and teaching her arabic and french. so when she received an offer

from another diplomat she leaped at the chance. >> i believe diplomats are really nice people. >> but this family could not have been more different. after two years, lily finally persuaded her captors to send $1,000 home to her family. afraid and isolated, she didn't ask for more. >> no one wants to take a chance of putting their family in danger or at risk. >> threats like. >> we'll hurt your family or maybe you'll report you to the authorities and tell them that you're the one who's doing something wrong. you're the one who's here illegally and it's your fault and no one is going to believe you. >> after years of isolation and humiliation, lily was near her breaking point. she began to fear she could spend her whole life enslaved to

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modern-day slave, lily had lost all hope. working up to 22 hours a day, lily says her employers even made her work when she had debilitating fevers. penniless because the family refused to pay her, lily lived a life of desperate isolation and growing depression. >> she's you know, my everything. >> back in indonesia, lily's husband andy had heard nothing from his wife for three long years. he feared that she was dead. >> can i call somebody here? i don't know. because she don't have phone, won't give me number. really hard. there's no communication with her. >> finally in 2006, lily reached a breaking point. the diplomat's wife who insisted that lily wash the car, accused her of shirking her duties.

>> i just cleaned the car from inside and outside and everything. then she was telling me why don't you clean the car? i told you every day you have to clean the car. i was really, really mad. i went outside and just stay there. and i said i cannot again. if i see heidi i will pack my stuff. i just need help. >> someone knocked at the door, i opened the door and there was lily. >> i was crying. i said, please help me. >> so i took her in. >> alarmed, heidi hid lily in the back of her car under a blanket and took her to the local police. the police directed them to the fbi. when lily's employer went to police asking them to find her, they refused saying she had left voluntarily. panicked about being exposed, the former oppress or pressured

the embassy to get her out of the u.s. >> they said i will pay her what i owe her here in the conso late on the condition that i see her ticket going back to indonesia and that she does not speak to anyone. so i thought, well, i don't think that's acceptable. that's basically a form of blackmail. >> if you are a diplomat, there's very little the u.s. government can do to prosecute you or for forms of recovery. >> human rights attorney says workers like lily routinely suffer extreme abuse if their employers happen to be a diplomat. it's called diplomatic immunity. they cannot be arrested or

prosecuted for criminal activity. as incredible as it sounds, some diplomats have gotten away with rape and murder in the united states. >> a lot of these diplomats are powerful people in the country that they're from. so unless you can secure the safety of those family members in their country first, there's a lot of maneuvering to be done without just slapping down a criminal case. >> unsure how to proceed, heidi and her family agreed to hide lily. i was very nervous. in fact, there were many nights that i lost a lot of sleep because i thought oh, my heavens, what's going on happen. >> for months they lived as if trapped in a surreal spy novel. lily stayed hidden for days at a time. occasionally heidi would sneak

her out of the house. >> of course i was frightened that they would see her. so what i used to do is whenever we went from the kitchen to the garage, i would have a coat over myself and she would walk next to me and we would kind of slowly march into the garage. once she was in the garage, she would be in the back seat and i would put the coat over her and i would put empty shopping bags on top. >> for six months heidi protected lily while a lawyer friend attempted to recover $6,000 in back wages that lily had been promised. as a last resort, heidi wrote a strongly worded letter to the consul general at the embassy. >> i sent the letter and ended up saying yes, the group of concerned citizens would like for you to please take care of this because we do not want this to go into an international

incident or to get into the papers or anything like this. the. >> nine months after fleeing her captor, lily finally received the $6,000 as promised in her original contract. and what was the final cost per hour for her three years of labor? about 23 cents an hour. in 2009 lily was finally reunited with her husband and had a baby girl. >> she's a great girl. lift me up from the bottom. she support me to get better in if life and everything. >> she is's really everything for me. because without her, i don't know how to do. because she really understand me and she really is -- she's everything.

>> hello. how are you? beautiful baby. >> today lily is in the u.s. on a legal visa and works as a nanny in san francisco. >> my life now is very happy and i have my baby and my husband is also hear. so now it's really happy that my life has really changed. >> the tv is not forever. >> while lily's story was ultimately resolved happily, lily represents a tiny fraction of those who silently suffer. liou says for every lily, there are hundreds of other workers trapped and aren't empowered enough to run. >> a big problem is if you are residing in a country where you don't feel like the laws protect you, you're never going to feel safe. >> inspections, please open the

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since 2004, san francisco's health department has been in the business of putting traffickers out of business. one of its lead investigators is ed walsh. >> i was kind of naive. i knew there was sex going on, but i didn't know how it worked. >> walsh got a quick lesson about six years ago. >> hello, inspections. >> when we first took over the program, i went into a facility

where there were women sitting on towels, on couches. and when i went in to check their i.d.s i asked them why they were sitting on towels and when they stood up, there was blood on the towels. so they were bleeding from either their rectum or vagina. it blew me away. >> the task force has been very very effective in reducing the number of illegal massage establishments in san francisco. >> we issued over 500 citations. >> can i see your i.d., please? >> fines to the tune of over $100,000 and we've closed 40 to 50 establishments. >> today we are going to be

going out for a inspection. >> today the health department is backed up by inspectors of the fire department, building and code enforcement as well as the city attorney. they're working together to help build cases against traffickers human establishments running parlors. in fact, the task force has been so successful that many of the downtown operators have scattered, cluzing to shied behind phoney fronts. >> if we go late enough at night there's a salon in front. he closes at like 6:00. so all the lights get turned off and they're in the back. >> hello? hi. inspectors. please open the door. >> police. >> are they holding it?

>> you want to put a towel on the customer there? >> my focus initially is on the masseuse. i need to id her and find out if she has a license. >> in the room next door another customer is stunned when the lights come on and even more shocked to see our cameras. when the inspectors try to identify the masseuse, the massage parlor manager plays dumb. >> i don't know. >> do you speak mandarin. >> yes. >> you can tell her that i want her to give me her id. >> she not work. >> she was in the room with the customer. >> yeah. and the customer had no clothes on. >> there was an practicer in that room providing massage to a client. we all saw it. but when we ask her for her name, she won't tell us. when we ask for id, she will not provide it. >> let's get the customer to talk.

excuse me sir, do you speak mandarin? could you come here for a second? we want her to show us an i.d. >> i forget. >> she forgot it? >> yeah. >> she has no i.d. with her right now? good luck cards, phone number, wow, you have a lot of money in here. no i.d., though. >> when they don't have any identification on themselves, those are indication that somebody is in charge of our day-to-day movement and that there's a likelihood that that person is being trafficked. >> you employ the services of unlicensed practicer. the because of that i'm going to issue a citation. >> she's not working. >> she's working. she was in there.

please. don't argue with me. the man has no clothes on. she's standing over him. there's no argument there. >> the massage parlor is cited and closed down for the night. >> so you go home early today. >> okay. >> sand inspectors move on down the line to another trouble spot. >> there's supposedly a john in here. saw somebody walk in. >> okay. >> the masseuse got very, very nervous. >> you spoke to my manager. >> how are you? >> good. >> so we went right into the rooms and we saw this gentleman on the table getting ready for a massage. >> sir, are you dressed? >> no. >> why don't you get dressed? >> who has a permit? who's working here right now? >> i have a customer. >> she knew she didn't have a permit but the person in a room was just here to order food. >> one customer inside.

>> you giving massage. >> no. inside the room waiting -- few minutes coming. >> come from where? >> pack the food. it's the dinner. >> the person came here to order food? that was the excuse she used. and i was like i don't think so. >> inspectors then notice something very strange. the woman is wearing an ear piece and taking instructions over the phone. >> my owner called is coming. >> she's talking to the owner right now. >> yeah. >> getting high tech on us. >> it's beautiful. >> with all the commotion and the presence of our camera, it seems the customer has lost his appetite. >> my inspector is going to issue you a citation. because you are doing massage without a license. so as we leave here today, i want you to close your doors. you are closed.

>> i'm sorry. i not understand. >> do you understand? no business. >> nobody has license here. you have to have license. we've got it closed now. everybody is ready to go, right? have you to follow the law and that's why we're out here tonight. if you're going to do a massage they have to have licenses. if you lose your i.d. >> yeah, it's here. >> san francisco is not going to tolerate anybody that is using his or her massage establishments as fronts for prostitution or human trafficking. >> we are here to serve the order. >> after a two-year battle, inspectors finally pull the plug on one of san francisco's most mow torus massage parlors.

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it's 3:45 in downtown san francisco, and while most city workers are close to ending their work day, health inspector ed walsh is just gearing up nor a much anticipated takedown. >> today we're going to jones. a sun flower spa. >> come on out, health department. >> it's the end of a five-year cat and mouse game with a city investigators and the clever proprietors of the sun flower health spa, a massage parlor offering sex for cash right in the shadow of city hall. >> where is the manager? >> over the last several years with msnbc in tow, in raid after raid, this massage parlor has been cited for numerous violations, where the evidence of sex for sale is obvious. >> this is a house of prostitution. if you're just here for a massage, they don't want you there for a massage. they want the money for the extra service. >> built like a prison fortress

and well equipped with cameras, sun flower's managers keep watch on six video monitors inside. >> the owner has security other the girls. so they can't leave the facility, they know if they're coming or going. >> year after year, authorities including the fbi receive reports of young foreign women being coerced into selling sex for cash at sunflower. >> there were so many signs of trafficking. there was living quarters found in the space, holes in the walls where women who were working as so-to-speak practitioners were hiding because they didn't have licenses. >> sun flower's biggest achievement was building secret hiding places to house women. the first was discovered behind a false wall in 2006. >> what is this? >> this is where they were sleeping previously. >> this was a room with a lot of mattresses. shoes, there could be about 8 to 10 people sleeping in that

unapproved room. >> after multiple fines, sunflower finally walled up that living space, but two inspections later, the task force found yet another room. >> this is a mirror on the wall. and behind the wall is a hole like they cut into the wall. when you open it, you discover there's a hole there. inside there, there's a very tight space. come out. >> the investigation of sunflower went through the looking glass when inspectors found women crammed into a cubby hole behind this wall. >> stay right there. >> this is probably one of the most blatant in the whole list of massage parlors in san francisco. where they just disregard the law and they do not want to comply with the law. they don't care. >> other the years, sun flower spared no legal expense battling

the health department and managed to stay open. >> sunflower was able to hire the best attorneys to refute all our allegations, all our evidence. it took five years to build a big enough case where we thought we could revoke the permit. and every time we had one of these hearings, they provided the best defense they could with the attorneys that they were able to afford. >> but on this day, after numerous appeals, a judge gives the san francisco health department the ruling they always sought. >> ready to go, sir? >> for ed walsh, the decision was a long sought victory and validation. >> are you ready? >> oh, yeah, this is it. this is great. they know it's going to happen. because they've been through the process. the final appeal to rehear the case, they got denied. so they know that we're getting ready to close them. >> when the inspectors descend upon sunflower, they find the proprietor reluctant to answer the doorbell.

unable to gain entry by way of the front door, inspector walsh goes around back. >> and as i approached the back door, the gentleman who was walking up the stairs here. >> how you doing, man? >> good, how are you? >> are you coming out this way? could you open it, please? thank you. >> he had his shoes in his hands. he's barefooted, walking out of the premises. >> san francisco police, can you open the door, please? >> with walsh now inside, sunflower has no choice but to open up for inspection. >> is there anybody else here today besides you? no girls? no? >> i sold everything. i'm done. >> after a quick search of the premises -- >> you have immigrant girls, there's always going to be little trap door, hiding places. >> -- including all of the favorite hiding spots. >> there were girls hiding here the last time. there's still shoes here, though. but the hole has been sealed up. >> investigators conclude the

massage parlor is deserted. >> we are here to serve the order indicating that your license has been revoked. >> yeah, but i already sold everything in here for the new person and they do a different type of business. i suppose to be out now, take all my stuff so they can come in and do their own business. >> when asked about the barefoot man who scrambled out the back door, the proprietor said it was her boyfriend. >> there was probably still a lot of activities. >> okay, i posted the sign on the front door saying your permit has been revoked. do not remove it. you're supposed to close effective 5:00 p.m. today. no customers. no massage activities. okay? >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> i think in the 21st century, no one should tolerate anybody being used as a sex slave. i will say it to people listening out there that human trafficking is real, and all they need to do is just take one step back. and ask themselves, would they want their daughters to be in that kind of situation? and those that have the ability to start this should do everything they can. to put an end to it. >> for now, the problem of human trafficking in america is a growing one, and the battlefield is nationwide involving tens of thousands of victims many scarred for life. some lost, others dead. each day, law enforcement is winning small victories, closing down the sunflower massage parlor, and the legal battle to win lily's freedom from human servitude. it is victories like these that will help win the war against human trafficking.